America, have been well exposed to the public by a writer of great abilities; and the further attempts to the same purpose that may be made by that society, or by the ministry or parliament, I leave to the conjectures of the thoughtful.--But it seems very manifest from the Stamp Act itself, that a design is formed to strip us in a great measure of the means of knowledge, by loading the Press, the Colleges, and even an Almanack and a News-Paper, with restraints and duties; and to introduce the inequalities and dependencies of the feudal system, by taking from the poorer sort of people all their little subsistence, and conferring it on a set of stamp officers, distributors and their deputies.--But I must proceed no farther at present.--The sequel, whenever I shall find health and leisure to pursue it, will be a "disquisition of the policy of the stamp act."----In the mean time, however, let me add, These are not the vapours of a melancholy mind, nor the effusions of envy, disappointed ambition, nor of a spirit of opposition to government: but the emanations of an heart that burns for its country's welfare. No one of any feeling, born and educated in this once happy country, can consider the numerous distresses, the gross indignities, the barbarous ignorance, the haughty usurpations, that we have reason to fear are meditating for ourselves, our children, our neighbours, in short for all our countrymen, and all their posterity, without the utmost agonies of heart, and many tears. FINIS. Transcriber's Notes: 18th Century English typography has been modernized for ease of reading, for example, long-s has been rendered using an ordinary s. Spelling conventions of the times have been maintained. Several misprints and punctuation errors corrected. Page 7, Added close quotes to end of quotation. Page 13, "achievements" spelled "atchievements" Left as is. Page 26, Added close quotes to end of quotation. Page 43, "necessay" changed to "necessary". Page 77, "extrardinary" changed to "extraordinary". Page 87, "achieved" spelled "atchieved" Left as is. Ligatures removed in ASCII Version: man[oe]oeuvres to manoeuvres, [oe]conomy to oeconomy.